Hi guys

A week ago i was playing around with a program called 100% Alcohol ( Setting up virtual drives). while doing so it sppears that the virtual drive replaced the position of my 500 gb HDD

So i thought easy i just have to allocate a new letter to my HDD. So i went in to the "Computer management" and tried to change the letter. By mistake i accidentally converted the HDD in to Dynamic (Which i believe wipes the MBR from the HDD) as well I managed to put GTP on the drive . so i finally managed to rebuild the MBR but now it shows as unallocated and WANTS me to format. This is not what i wanted as i have all my files on there. I ended up finding instructions on how to REMOVE the GTP using diskpart but i only used the "clean" function as the next step was to format. so now i have removed the GTP but it still wants me to format and i have tried so many programs to retrieve the data it's crazy. is there any way i can get my files back?
You could try a program I used when this happened to me called Find and Mount (F 'N' M).

It searches for old partitions in the MBR and you can mount them as drives to copy the data off of them. Unfortunately the free version only lets you transfer STUFF at 2MB/s or something like that..so my drive recovery for my full 500GB drive took 3 full days

But the key thing is...IT WORKED.

You can get it here:

http://findandmount.com/

Good Luck!Thank you for your reply, i must admit the program looks great though i have just COMPLETED a Normal & Intellectual Scan but nothing appears. Before i try the Full scan will i need to prepare my HDD drive (Format it)? first. Also do you think the"Clean" feature in "Diskpart" may have caused this?. Whatever you do don't format it.

It needs to have as much original data as possible to get the best results

Data recovery sure isn't as easy as it used to be NOOOO!!!!!!! i did all the scans and picked up nothing... Im currently trying a program called "Restorer" but this is the last straw. Looks like i have no other choice but to start over if this doesn't work. Hook up the drive as a slave in another working desktop before you give up completely...
Your data is probably still there.